[Wolves] Lightning Talks

Sun Jun 7 17:01:49 UTC 2020

Thanks Kris. Good to hear from you. I'm sure there would be interest in
that, 3D printing has been discussed on probably the last 2 or 3 virtual
meetings. I don't have one though, so I'd sit quietly in the corner.

If you could give that a snappy title I can add it to the proposed talks
list.

Ad

On 06/06/2020 02:00, Kris Douglas wrote:
> I could do something around 3D printing and building the Open Source
> Marlin printer firmware that runs on various ARM chips in 3D printers.
> It's something I've been on somewhat of a deep dive on recently. Would
> need some time to put something together if anyone was interested.
> 
> Quite keen to to the little lightning talk idea though!
> 
> Cheers
> Kris
> 
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 18:25, Adam Sweet via Wolves
> <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks Chris, I'd be interested all of those. The bottom 5 particularly,
>     and the first two later on. I've seen your Bergamot talk twice, but you
>     can do it for those that haven't.
> 
>     FWIW, I've put all this stuff up here:
> 
>     http://wolveslug.org.uk/proposed-talks/
> 
>     I'll keep this list updated as people offer subjects they can talk on
>     and request some they'd be interested in and we can pick them off
>     over time.
> 
>     Ad
> 
> 
>     On 05/06/2020 16:50, Chris Ellis via Wolves wrote:
>     > This is a great idea, and I'd really encourage everyone to try and do
>     > a short talk.  No matter how nervous you might feel about it, people
>     > won't bite.
>     > If you think you can't talk about anything that would interest others,
>     > I'm fairly certain you will be able too, as they say, there is a book
>     > in everyone.
>     >
>     > Things I'm happy to talk on:
>     > * Ceph - Software Defined Storage - Quick overview and some of the
>     > pain I went through with it
>     > * Routed Network Fabrics - How to build really high throughput
>     > networks dirt cheap using commodity switches and Linux cleverness
>     > * Bergamot Monitoring - Need I say more
>     > * ESP32 - What is it and getting started.
>     > * Containers - Happy to do an intro to Docker / Containers / Podman,
>     > how to run stuff and how to build containers.
>     > * Kubernetes - What is it and getting started
>     > * openSUSE - A quick look at MicroOS and Kubic - new variants of
>     > openSUSE which are pretty interesting
>     > * Anything PostgreSQL related
>     >
>     > Happy to listen to anything other people want to talk about,
>     > especially things that they find interesting and are passionate about.
>     >
>     > Chris E.
>     > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:18 PM Adam Sweet via Wolves
>     > <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> So, here are some things I could talk about:
>     >>
>     >> * The command line for beginners
>     >> * Network monitoring with Nagios
>     >> * SNMP and how to monitor your network with it
>     >> * Diet and exercise for geeks
>     >> * Taking care of your back when you sit down all day
>     >> * How to grow chillies (and other vegetables)
>     >> * Setting up a website with Linux
>     >> * Network file sharing with Linux (NFS, Samba and SSH)
>     >> * Guitar basics
>     >> * The basics of cooking good food well
>     >> * Introduction to OpenBSD
>     >> * The FreeBSD and OpenBSD pf firewall
>     >>
>     >> Some things I'd like to hear others talk about:
>     >>
>     >> * Containers (LXC, Docker, podman etc)
>     >> * Kubernetes, what and why
>     >> * ESP32 (firmware, language runtimes and power saving)
>     >> * HomeAssistant
>     >> * Python programming, maybe C, C++ and Java too
>     >> * Introductions to other distros e.g. (Open)SUSE, Elementary OS
>     >> * Basics of electronics
>     >>
>     >> So, go ahead. Feel free to post a list of things you could demo
>     or talk
>     >> about and let me know which of the above you'd like to hear about.
>     >>
>     >> Only rule here is you should offer more than you request...
>     >>
>     >> Ad
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 05/06/2020 15:37, Adam Sweet wrote:
>     >>> On Weds we discussed the idea of holding regular lightning talk
>     >>> evenings, perhaps once a fortnight or once a month as a prelude to
>     >>> holding longer format talks in future.
>     >>>
>     >>> By lightning talks we mean 5-15 minute introductions to a topic
>     that you
>     >>> know something about and can explain to others. Ideally, that
>     would be
>     >>> something geeky or to do with technology but it doesn't have to
>     be, it
>     >>> could be some other area you know about like music, cooking or
>     gardening
>     >>> since we're a diverse group and have lots of interests. Perhaps
>     >>> something along the lines of:
>     >>>
>     >>> * Your preferred Linux distro
>     >>> * A particular software application that you know that others
>     might be
>     >>> interested in
>     >>> * What you do in your line of work (sysadmin or dev tools, the
>     language
>     >>> or IDE you use, what technologies you use)
>     >>> * Hardware (PC, server, embedded, Arduino, ESP32/ESP8266, radio)
>     >>> * Radio stuff
>     >>> * A particular musical instrument you play and how to get started
>     >>> * Gardening or some other hobby you might have
>     >>>
>     >>> Obviously, being a 5-15 min talk it doesn't need to be a deep
>     dive, just
>     >>> an intro and answering some questions.
>     >>>
>     >>> We're an interesting bunch and we have a lot of expertise in
>     different
>     >>> areas of technology and a lot of interests outside of technology
>     so I'm
>     >>> sure each of us can come up with something.
>     >>>
>     >>> So, for this coming Wednesday's virtual meeting, I'd like
>     everyone to
>     >>> think of something they could talk about for 5-15 mins on and we'll
>     >>> choose enough to fill maybe an hour.
>     >>>
>     >>> Don't be worried about talking about stuff you think everyone will
>     >>> already know, or won't want to know, or getting something wrong, or
>     >>> being heckled, we're all in the same boat and most of us have
>     known each
>     >>> other a long time.
>     >>>
>     >>> I think we'd all like more LUG content, talks and presentations in
>     >>> particular, but nobody actually wants to give them, so we all
>     have to be
>     >>> prepared to contribute and this is a low barrier to entry.
>     >>>
>     >>> So, that's the price of admission for the next virtual meeting.
>     If you
>     >>> want to join the conf, then be prepared to talk about something.
>     Do a
>     >>> bit of prep so you know what you're going to say, maybe prepare some
>     >>> slides or do a screen share to show stuff. If we have more than an
>     >>> hour's worth, then maybe you won't have to do yours until the
>     next time,
>     >>> but at least you'll have to volunteered and we'll have something
>     in the
>     >>> bank for next time.
>     >>>
>     >>> I'm going to post a follow-up containing a list of things I
>     could talk
>     >>> about and a list of things I'd like to hear others talk about.
>     >>>
>     >>> Ad
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >>
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